The Jamaicans
by Victor Stafford [V.S.] Reid
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Slight edge wear, rust offsetting from stapled card to front, card itself is foxed. Otherwise clean and sound; Very Good (+).
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
Kingston: The Institute for Jamaica, 1976. First Edition. Perfect-bound octavo in illustrated wrappers. 266pp. Slight edge wear, rust offsetting from stapled card to front, card itself is foxed. Otherwise clean and sound; Very Good (+).. Cover by Gisa Malburg. Presentation copy of the notable Jamaican writer's penultimate novel, an account of Juan de Bolas and the Jamaican Maroons.
This copy, with a card from Reid stapled to the front wrap with "Compliments" penned to it, is further inscribed to half-title for his daughter Sonia (from his 1935 marriage to Victoria Monica Jacobs): for my daughter / Sonia / from Daddy / Victor Reid / Nov. '76
This copy, with a card from Reid stapled to the front wrap with "Compliments" penned to it, is further inscribed to half-title for his daughter Sonia (from his 1935 marriage to Victoria Monica Jacobs): for my daughter / Sonia / from Daddy / Victor Reid / Nov. '76
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Details
- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2313
- Title
- The Jamaicans
- Author
- Victor Stafford [V.S.] Reid
- Illustrator
- Cover by Gisa Malburg
- Format/Binding
- Perfect-bound octavo in illustrated wrappers. 266pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Slight edge wear, rust offsetting from stapled card to front, card itself is foxed. Otherwise clean and sound; Very Good (+).
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Institute for Jamaica
- Place of Publication
- Kingston
- Date Published
- 1976
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Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...